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People really don't give enough thought to what could happen if our neural nets make contact with occult forces. Let's just hope that the Laundry really exists.
by grabcocque 10y ago
People really don't give enough thought to what could happen if our neural nets make contact with occult forces. Let's just hope that the Laundry really exists.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/50764-laundry-files https://www.goodreads.com/series/50764-laundry-files
- deepnet 10y agoOccult entities from Haitian Voudo occupying cyberspace is a central theme of William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero & Mona Lisa Overdrive, snip: Bobby took a deep breath. "Lucas said that Jackie's a horse for a snake. Can you run that by me in street tech?" "Certainly. Think of Jackie as a deck, Bobby, a cyberspace deck, a very pretty one with nice ankles." Lucas grinned and Bobby blushed. "Think of Danbala, who some people call the snake, as a program. Say as an icebreaker. Danbala slots into the Jaekie's deck, Jackie cuts ice. That's all." Okay," Bobby said, getting the hang of it, "then what's the matrix? If she's a deck, and Danbala's a program, what's cyberspace?"